[compiz] removing string restrictions

[Mike Dransfield]

Dennis Kasprzyk wrote:
> Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007 17:15 schrieb David Reveman:
>   
>> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 11:45 +0200, Dennis Kasprzyk wrote:
>>     
>>> Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 21:24 schrieb David Reveman:
>>>       
>>>> We've previously discussed if we should add some sort of selection
>>>> option type and not use string options and string restrictions for that
>>>> purpose.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think we need a new option type for this. The integer type
>>>> should do just fine. The attached patch changes the blur plugin's
>>>> filter option from string to integer type and adds the relevant
>>>> metadata. I suggest that we change all existing options that use string
>>>> restrictions in a similar way and remove the string restrictions
>>>> completely.
>>>>
>>>> Questions? Does it sounds OK?
>>>>
>>>> - David
>>>>         
>>> I like the idea, but I would prefer a different XML style.
>>> <desc>
>>> 	<_name value="1">Foo</_name>
>>> 	<_name value="2">Foo2</_name>
>>> 	<_name value="3">Foo3</_name>
>>> </desc>
>>>       
>> I wanted the <desc> tag to look the same for every option type and not
>> all option type values can be represented as strings. e.g. actions. All
>> option values in the meta data are currently within tags, hence it makes
>> sense to keep these values within tags as well.
>>
>> - David
>>     
>
> Maybe you should provide some kind of final layout description (also for the 
> dependency rules), so that we can start to implement it. Getting everything 
> together from different mails is painfull. 
>   

Even just an example xml file with all the different option types
and a quick comment for each tag would be useful.

Explanation of why some tags have leading underscores would
be nice too ;)

> Dennis 
>
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